2016 - 2020
Iris Berben
Actress, former President of the German Film Academy, ambassador for the “Room of Names” in the Holocaust Memorial, holder of the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Anne Brasseur
Politician, former member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, former ambassador for the No Hate Speech Movement of the Council of Europe, former member of the parliament of Luxemburg
Dr. Shirin Ebadi
Lawyer, former judge, former lecturer at the University of Tehran, 2003 Peace Nobel Prize laureate, holder of an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 2011
Prof. Dr. Hilal Elver
Lawyer, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, visiting professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara and co-director of the Project on Climate Change, Human Security and Democracy at the Orfalea Center
Prof. Dr. h.c. Gareth Evans
Chancellor of the Australian National University, president emeritus of the International Crisis Group, former Foreign Minister of Australia, former member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention, co-chair of the International Advisory Board of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Hina Jilani
Lawyer, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders, co-founder of the Human Rights Commission of Pakista
Prof. Dr. Maurice Glèlè-Ahanhanzo
Professor of law, president of the Institute for Human Rights and Promotion of Democracy, former member of the UN Human Rights Committee, former member of the Constitutional Court of Benin, former UN-Special Rapporteur on Racism
Kagwiria Mbogori
Lawyer, expert on international human rights protection systems, chairperson of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR)
Dani Karavan
Internationally renowned artist, creator of the “Way of Human Rights” in Nuremberg, since 2018 honorary citizen of the City of Nuremberg
Dr. h.c. Sonia Picado
Lawyer; President of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights; President of the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Torture; Former Ambassador of Costa Rica to the USA
Marcus König
Lord Mayor of the City of Nuremberg